On the last podcast we talked about how to leverage the Adobe student/faculty/staff educational discount to your professional advantage, a practice they seem to encourage now. The ins and outs of this policy are many and varied, but suffice it to say if you are not a student, faculty, or staff, you may need to find some back-alley means to upgrade your softer wares.
I know of three designers whom I’m close to who have the CS4, and no-one has really been able to tell me about it. I’m doing what I would like to think amounts to some decently sophisticated programming in Dreamweaver, taking advantage of the Sauron-esque powers of Adobe Spry effects on our way to a single-page site of pure sugar-coated awesomeness, and the Live View feature would be shortcut to success I am sure. I didn’t even know about integrating Photoshop smart objects into Dreamweaver until I went to the New Features page just now to check that I was appropriately crediting correct items, and when I saw that a very noticeable pang of excitement rolled through my body. Like a kid at Christmas who sees a present under the tree shaped exactly like that Gameboy box he saw in the store, and just knows. It was that kind of pang. I might need to download the preview for this.
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Yeah, I put myself on Adobe’s mailing list so that they’d email me when the student Design Premium Suite would be available, only to find out that CS4 will only run on G5 or better.
So I’ll be stuck with CS3 on my iBook G4 until I can get my hands on a new Macintosh.
But since I’m a senior, I may be purchasing CS4 anyway just so I can get an education discount. And worry about getting a new mac later.